Friday, October 3, 2014

The most transparent administration in history is forced by judge to be transparent...

It's about time someone helped Obama keep his promises...

Scandal: A court tells the White House to ac knowledge the
existence of a probe into whether one of its advisers used private tax
records for political gain. Transparency is being forced on an
administration that's anything but.
In 2010, an attorney for industrialists and libertarian political
donors Charles and David Koch told the Weekly Standard of a senior Obama
aide telling reporters on background that the Kochs "do not pay
corporate income tax" through their company, Koch Industries.
How, the attorney justifiably wondered, did the White House get his clients' private information from the IRS?
The anonymous official has since been identified as former White
House senior economics adviser Austin Goolsbee, and his remarks were
aimed to besmirch the Koch brothers and their group Americans for
Prosperity, the bête noir of Democrats and the White House for helping
expose Obama administration failures and the dangers of its policies.
In a conference call with reporters, the Washington Post reported,
Goolsbee used Koch Industries as an example to back up an administration
claim that half of all business income went to companies that manage to
avoid paying corporate income taxes.
Goolsbee could not have made his claim without access to the Kochs'
private tax data, something a White House official is not supposed to
have. The administration's early excuses were that he obtained the data
from an unidentified government board and later that he must have read
about it somewhere.